The director, who based the film on his personal experiences growing up as a second-generation American with Jewish immigrant parents, says calls for only casting Jewish actors can lead to stereotyping.
It’s a criticism the director, who is of Russian Jewish descent, disagrees with regarding his film — a semi-autobiographical in its telling of race, privilege, antisemitism and the effects of assimilation on a Jewish immigrant family.
He also calls pushback on the casting choice personally offensive and argues that the demand to only cast Jewish actors for Jewish roles can lead to stereotyping. “I take huge offense to that as well. Because that means what people want is [puts on a Yiddish accent] ‘Hello, I am the Jewish grandfather!'” Gray said. “But that’s not what my grandfather was like.”and complain that Marlon Brando is from Omaha, Nebraska, and not an Italian New York guy?” he continues.
The film’s inciting incident — based on a real experience Gray had as a child — involves Johnny , a young Black boy who agrees to steal a school computer with his Jewish friend Paul . They’re both arrested, but Paul is allowed to leave with his father, while Johnny is left with the police, after which the two boys never see one another again.
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